Ricky Jay Quotes

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

Ricky Jay

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It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.

Max Muller

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Feeling sad or lonely isn't a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you'll cross the line into self-pity.

Amy Morin

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Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.

Robert Brustein

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One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

Roger Ebert

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One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive.

Mike Quigley

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Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.

Lois Lowry

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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

Jean Baudrillard

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A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

Joseph Lancaster

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Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!

Dominika Cibulkova

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An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.

Dawn Steel

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I try to say I love you in a million different ways. That's what I aspire to do. That's what I do best.

Christine McVie

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And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.

Cody Horn

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